Technical Account Manager
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Description
- The Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a post-sales technical lead responsible for driving the successful adoption, scaling, and self-sufficiency of advanced software solutions, including Mendix, Graph Studio, AI Cloud, and SAS Language Compiler tools
- This role focuses on guiding customers toward effective product utilization, establishing robust architectural views, and fostering trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
- The TAM is both a technical practitioner, capable of hands-on prototyping and integrations, and a strategic advisor, enabling customer success while channeling feedback to Siemens’ product teams
- A successful TAM ensures that customers achieve productive use of sold software through clear technical account plans, seamless orchestration across teams, and empowered, self-sufficient customer teams
- They drive account growth by surfacing new technical use cases, de-risking expansions, and sharing adoption best practices to scale know-how across the organization
- Additionally, they act as the voice of the customer, channeling structured field insights to Product teams while ensuring customers recognize their needs reflected in Siemens’ roadmap
- The TAM serves as the post-sale technical hub, enabling adoption and expansion by providing technical input to the Account Executive and aligning strategies with Expert Services for implementation
- They coordinate across Specialists, Renewal Specialists, and Partner AEs for seamless execution and planning, while advising customer architects on product integration without taking ownership of architecture decisions
- Acting as the bridge to the Field CTO, the TAM delivers field insights upstream and roadmap context to customers, while commercial aspects like QBRs, CSAT/NPS, upsells, and renewals remain with the AE, Renewal Specialists.SA
- Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders like CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise architects. Serve as their strategic technical advisor
- Collaborate with AEs and Partner Managers to align technical adoption and growth priorities
- Maintain a clear view of customer architecture, advising on product integration
- Develop and own Customer Adoption Plans aligned to customer strategies, ensuring progress and alignment
- Lead technical kickoffs and adoption enablement activities (e.g., workshops, account reviews) to drive customer self-sufficiency
- Prototype and lightly integrate solutions as needed; engage Specialists for heavy builds
- Align with Expert Services for implementations, focusing on adoption health
- Shape new technical use cases and identify scaling opportunities across products
- Route potential commercial signals to the account team and contribute expert technical input on bids and RFx processes
- Track adoption health and pipelines while supporting internal reviews and account planning
- Collaborate across Siemens teams and use internal tools to streamline processes
- Share adoption best practices and contribute to playbooks and reference materials
- Mentor TAMs and team members, driving technical excellence
- Capture adoption insights and provide structured feedback to the Field CTO
- Advocate for customer needs internally, ensuring alignment and addressing blockers
- Uphold Siemens’ values, maintain compliance, and complete necessary administrative tasks
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Family leave
- Retirement savings
- Commuter Benefits
- Generous Paid time off
- Outings & Events
- Training & Development
- Technical Account Planning: Develop technical account plans and align adoption strategies with customer goals and priorities
- Architectural Advisory: Advise on architectural landscape mapping and integration of products into customer environments
- Orchestration & Collaboration: Coordinate across teams (AEs, Specialists, Expert Services, Partner Managers) for seamless execution and adoption
- Mentoring & Knowledge Sharing: Coach TAM peers, contribute to adoption best practices, and enable customer self-sufficiency
- Wider Siemens Portfolio Awareness: Familiarity with the broader Siemens portfolio to identify integration opportunities and adjacent solutions
- Voice-of-Customer Advocacy: Capture structured feedback and represent customer needs to influence product roadmaps while providing technical input to bids and RFx processes
- Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders such as CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and business leaders
- Software, Data & AI Practices: Proficiency in delivery practices and technical execution across software, data, and AI solutions
- Deep Adoption Expertise: Expertise in the adoption and account discipline, with breadth across all four products and practitioner-level hands-on capability for prototyping, demos, and product work
- Growth Mindset & AI Proficiency: Embrace self-development, a growth mindset, and skilled use of generative AI to improve efficiency and quality in daily work
- Flexible work environment with potential travel as required for customer engagements
- Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; advanced degrees are welcome
- Demonstrated experience in technical customer management, consultancy, presales, or similar roles within software or technology